Recorded Session
Online Games and Simulations: Effective Learning Tools or Time Wasters?
Katharine Thurlow, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD An important debate in gifted education, and in education in general, concerns the growing interest in games and simulations as a means to promote active, student-centered learning. While much research shows that these engaging environments can improve learning outcomes and encourage persistence, many are concerned that they are inefficient learning tools that lead to compulsive overuse, wasted time, and distraction. This presentation explores both sides, drawing on new, experimental research conducted at Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth. Examples of serious games are demonstrated, along with free software tools used to create educational games and simulations. Audience: Classroom Teachers K-12, Coordinators, Parents, Researchers Room: 705
Poster Session
NAGC Base Camp
NCSSSMST
Bully Proofing our High-Ability Students
Terry Wayne Neu, Sacred Heart University, Griswold, CT Using state definitions as a common language to describe bullying behaviors, this presentation supports classroom professionals as they work with students. Exercises in identifying and classifying bullying behavior helps participants recognize the bullying situations that gifted students are reporting. Descriptions of safe and supportive classroom environments with case-study examples are provided. Activities that model de-escalation and mediation as a tool for preventing bullying are shared. Recognizing and reporting of Cyber Bullying is also addressed. This workshop encourages teachers and others to examine their own understanding of bullying in schools. Audience: Administrators, Advocates/Association Leaders, Classroom Teachers K-12, Coordinators, Counselors, Parents Room: 205
Creativity
9.4 L eadership Development for Gifted Students in Community Service Programs
Terence Paul Friedrichs, Friedrichs Education, Mendota Heights, MN; Amos Asher Gewirtz, Henry Sibley High School, Mendota Heights, MN Gifted students’ dedication to service, steeped in longdocumented affective traits, increasingly is demonstrated in community-service leadership. Through school-based skill development, these youth can extend socially conscious leadership beyond K-12, into adult careers and volunteerism. However, K-12 teachers currently lack knowledge on developing these important competencies. This session conveys traits of young gifted leaders and “gifted-sensitive” community-service programs, and describes in detail the high-school leadership experiences provided by two exemplary programs. Finally, attendees offer observations on such youths’ traits and effective community leadership-training programming.
17.2 The Creative Process: A Mathematical and Psychological Model
Min Ma, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium Our research aim is to arrive at a measurable model of the creative process by putting creativity in the context of a learning process. We provide a detailed description of how creative thinking fits in a general description of the learning process without trying to go into an analysis of a biological description of the brain activity. Our tool is the aspect deformation process of an indicator process partially ordered by causality, using mathematical method to prove this process.
Saturday
Counseling & Guidance
Audience: Classroom Teachers K-12, Consultants, Coordinators, Counselors, Researchers Room: Exhibit Hall A
Audience: Classroom Teachers 9-12, Counselors, Parents Room: Exhibit Hall A
59th Annual Convention
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November 15-18, 2012 | Denver, Colorado
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